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U.S. hopes to release Pacific trade deal text in 30 days -Froman

Published 2015-10-10, 02:21 p/m
© Reuters. U.S. hopes to release Pacific trade deal text in 30 days -Froman

Oct 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. administration hopes to release
the full text of a Pacific trade deal within the next 30 days,
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said in an interview
with CNN.
The United States sealed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
with 11 trading partners this week, after more than five years
of negotiations.
"The lawyers are working right now to finalize the text and
to prepare it for release. We hope to get it out within the next
30 days," Froman said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria
GPS, to be broadcast on Sunday, according to a transcript.
Under a timetable laid out by the U.S. Congress, the text of
any trade deal should be made public 30 days after the
administration notifies Congress that it intends to sign it.
President Barack Obama can sign the deal 60 days after the text
is made public.
Froman also brushed off criticism of the TPP, a central
plank of the administration's pivot to Asia, by U.S. Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, who backed the developing trade pact when she was
secretary of state during Obama's first term, said on Wednesday:
"The bar here is very high and, based on what I have seen, I
don't believe the agreement has met it."
Froman said he did not want to comment on presidential
politics but said the deal was of a "very high standard."
"I'm convinced as the people sit down and take the time to
go through it in detail, that they'll come to a positive
judgment," he said.

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